Washboiler.



No. 677,394. Patented July 2, I90! F. M. BAIN.

WASHB OILER.

(Application filed July 3, 1900.)

(No Model.)

lAflorgcys UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS M. BAIN, OF ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN.

WASHBOILER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 677,394, dated July 2, 1901.

Application filed July 3, 1900- Serial No. 22,464. (No model.)

To all 1072 0111, it imty concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS M. BAIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ann Arbor, in the county of \Vashtenaw and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful 'Washboiler, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to washboilers, and has for its object to provide improved means for lifting the clothes from the boiler, so as to effectively drain the water therefrom and to facilitate the transferring of the clothes from the boiler to a tub. It is furthermore designed to provide an improved attachment of this character which is applicable to any ordinary washboiler, so as not to interfere with the free circulation of the water and to permit of the clothes being taken out of the boiler in bulk and conveniently dumped or slid from the attachment into a tub.

With these and other objects in View the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanyingdrawings,and particularly point ed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of an ordinary washboiler having the improved attachment applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the clothes-lifting attachment. Fig. at is a detail view of the detachable handle :for lifting the attachment out of the boiler.

Corresponding parts are designated by like characters of reference in all of the figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a washboiler of the common or ordinary shape and of any desired size, having the improved attachment fitted therein in its normal position. The attachment is best shown in Fig. 8 of the drawings and comprises a substantially elliptical metallic plate 2, preferably of galvanized iron, so as not to rust, and thereby injure the clothes. This plate is provided with a plurality of perforations 3, so as to drain the water therefrom. Soldered or otherwise secured to the under side of the plate is a central longitudinal strengthening and stiffening metal strip 4, which is provided with perforations corresponding to those of the plate. One end of this strip is bent upwardly at substantially right angles to the plate 2, so as to form an end plate 5, and the opposite longi- -tudinal edges of the strip are beaded, as at 6,

within which are held the marginal stiffening-wires 7. By this means the under side of the plate or body of the attachment is provided with opposite ribs, that space the plate slightly above the bottom of the washboiler, so as to permit of a free circulation of water around and beneath the lifting device. As indicated in Fig. 1, the stiffening-strip extends for nearly the entire length of the plate, so as to effectually stiffen the latter throughout its length. The stiffening-wire is formed from a single piece, with its intermediate portion 8 extended above the end plate, so as to form a loop or hand-grasp.

The opposite longitudinal edges of the body plate are provided with corresponding intermediate notches by bending portions thereof, as at 9, inwardly and upon the upper side of the plate, so as to receive the lower ends of the opposite metal plates 10, which are duplicates. Each of these plates is of suitable width to fit snugly within the adjacent notch in the main plate, the lower end being bent inwardly and soldered or otherwise secured to the bottom of the main plate, as indicated at 11 in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The lower end of each side plate preferably abuts against the adjacent rib or bead 6, and the adjacent edge of the main plate is stifiened and reinforced by being held between the bent flanges 9 and 11. The marginal edges of the upstanding side plates are beaded, as at 12, to firmly embrace the marginal stifiening-wires 13. Each wire has its intermediate portion extended above the top of the adjacent side plate, as at 14:, so as to form a loop, and the transverse end portion thereof is bent inwardly, so as to form a looped hook 15.

For the convenient manipulation of the attachment there is provided a detachable handle 16, as best shownv in Fig. 4 of the drawings, and which is preferably formed from a single length of heavy wire bent intermediate of its ends to form the opposite spring members or jaws 17, that are crossed so as to form a loop or ring 18 at the upper end thereof, and the free extremities of the jaws are formed into outwardly-directed hooks or bowed fingers 19.

In using the device it is first placed within the boiler, so that the ribs 6 rest upon the bottom of the boiler, after which the clothes are placed upon the body-plate, upon which they are confined by the side and end walls or plates. lVhen the clothes have been sufficiently boiled, the hooks of the handle are engaged with the fulcrum-loops of the side walls or plates, as shown in Fig. 2, so as to conveniently elevate the device with the clothes out of the boiler, and by tilting the device by means of the handle 8 and upon the bail-handle as a fulcrum-support the clothes may be slid or dumped into a tub without requiring the handling of the individual pieces of clothing. By providing the detachable handle with the spring jaws or arms the lat ter may be conveniently snapped into engagement with the side loops from the inner side thereof, whereby the pressure of the arms will prevent accidental detachment of the handle, and the device may be conveniently tilted upon the handle as a pivotal support. By having the loops 15 offset inwardly from the side walls 10 they are also spaced inwardly from the sides of the washboiler, so as to permit the convenient engagement therewith of the swinging bail-handle.

It will be observed that the opposite sides of the clothes-containing device terminate short of the opposite ends of the bottom thereof, so as to permit of the water in the boiler having direct access to the clothes, the side pieces being only wide enough to prevent lateral displacement of the clothes when applying and removing the device.

What is claimed is- V 1. The combination with a washboiler, of a clothes-containing device removably housed therein, and comprising a bottom plate, a single end wall, a handle thereon, opposite upstanding sides located substantially midway between the opposite ends of the bottom plate,

' and a swinging bail-handle having its oppodiate portion of the wire being extended above the wall and'formed intoahandle, and I the lower portions of the beads forming sup ports, and opposite side walls, having loops at their upper ends.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aftixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FRANCIS M. BAIN.

\Vitnesses:

CHARLES AWREY, PHILIP BLUM, Jr. 

